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by bobmcnamara 633 days ago
TBH, Intel ISAs have never been very stable, the mixed AVX flavors are just the latest examples.
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Yeah, it so fast that AMD is not even able to catchup and that many of the extensions is available only on Intel CPUs.

As far as I could tell, it is only unstable in the sense of being fast and having many features. I dont see any breaking for my code using cpuid to detect avx512 features.

No, I mean things like when they removed BCD support, or when they removed simultaneous 16-bit ISA when they added 64-bit. Or the bit string instructions. Or moving the cmpxchg encoding across chip revisions.